MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'biofuel'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:05 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4118873&cid=t_141306_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvW32KRuXn4c%2F By Michael F. CannonIn my recent “Bootleggers & Baptists, Sugary Soda Edition” post, I wrote that environmentalists and agribusiness team up to support ethanol subsidies. An alert Cato@Liberty reader writes to my colleague Jerry Taylor: [Cannon] is no doubt right that environmentalists and agribusiness worked together to promote government subsidies to ethanol through about 2006. But by 2007 (when the ethanol mandate was doubled) the environmentalists had dropped out of the pro-ethanol coalition, to be replaced by national-security hawks! If you run into him, please tell him to stop blaming environmentalists for current biofuels policies! If environmentalists have recently dropped their support for ethanol subsidies, they deserve credit for that. Mea culpa. I would rather h... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4118873 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:11:31 +0100 4118873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3907569&cid=t_141306_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F197200%2F Sugar Shock: Shell will be launching a biofuel venture in Brazil, along with the world’s biggest sugarcane producer. (via Fast Company)Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3907569 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:54:35 +0100 3907569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3858129&cid=t_141306_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ffrom-butter-to-biodiesel-how-fat-could-fuel-your-car%2F photo: Thinkstock Did you ever think that eco-friendly biofuel could be extracted from the pats of butter innocently sitting on your dinner table? We didn’t either. But Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, did. He came up with the idea in 2007, when thinking of what to do with the 800-pound all-butter sculpture that is created every year for the Pennsylvania Farm Show. A team of researchers at a small company called BlackGold Biofuels melted the butter down and removed all of the water from it. They then converted the fat into biofuel. Pretty simple, right? While the researchers don’t think using butter to create fuel would be cost-efficient, the experiment did offer insight into possibly using waste from dairy farms or excess grease fro... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3858129 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:45:28 +0100 3858129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3757838&cid=t_141306_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fbp-biofuels-start-buying-ethanol-plant-could-they-actually-be-learning-something%2F photo: Thinkstock In an uncharacteristic smart move, BP committed to buying a technology and ethanol plant in Jennings, Lousiana. The plant uses bagasse, the residue from sugar cane processing, to make ethanol, which then mixes with gasoline. The new CEO of BP Biofuels says that the purchase will help speed the delivery of a low carbon, low cost, sustainable biofuel. Well, at least this is one step in the right direction after BP’s marathon debacle in the Gulf of Mexico. Could the (oily) tide be turning? via CNET Post from: BlissTree BP Biofuels Buys Ethanol Plant (Could They Actually Be Learning Something?) (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3757838 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:21:07 +0100 3757838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1458442&cid=t_141306_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D7015 Day by Day by Chris Muir There is HOPE that Americans with $4 plus a gallon gasoline that energy independence may become important. There is an aversion to drilling domestically at ANWR and off of our sea coasts so the development of alternative technologies including biofuels will become a priority. Is this the free market at work? Finally…. Previous: The Day By Day Archive (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1458442 Wed, 21 May 2008 12:57:55 +0100 1458442 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1436934&cid=t_141306_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F288882594%2F The Trichoderma reesei genome paper was recently published in Nature Biotechnology from Diego Martinez at LANL with collaborators at JGI, LBNL, and others. This fungus was chosen for sequencing because it was found on canvas tents eating the cotton material suggesting it may be a good candidate for degrading cellulose plant material as part of cellulosic ethanol or other biofuels production.  The fungus also has starring roles in industrial processes like making stonewashed jeans due to its prodigious cellulase production. The most surprising findings from the paper include the fact that there are so few members of some of the enzyme families even though this fungus is able to generate enzymes with so much cellulase activity. The authors found that there is not a significantly larger numb... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1436934 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:27:46 +0100 1436934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1380494&cid=t_141306_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6786 Michael Ramirez on Biofuel News Item: An appeal to slow down on biofuel Last Friday an advisory panel to the European Environment Agency issued an extraordinary scientific opinion: The European Union should suspend its goal of having 10 percent of transportation fuel made from biofuel by 2020. The European Union’s biofuel targets were increased and extended from 5.75 percent by 2010 to 10 percent by 2020 just last year. Still, Europe’s well-meaning rush to biofuels, the scientists concluded, had produced a slew of harmful ripple effects - from deforestation in Southeast Asia to higher prices for grains. Key Graphs: But the rush to meet biofuels targets has put our “need” to drive a car to the mall in direct competition with the need to eat in some of the poorest c... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1380494 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:25:52 +0100 1380494 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=811348&cid=t_141306_107_f&fid=36045&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbayblab.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fbiofuels.html Every time I read about the economics of producing ethanol fuel, it seems that it is doomed from the start. The problem is that producing ethanol from food crops, such as corn, creates additional problems, such as increasing the demand and price of a basic food staple, and using up energy to grow the crop vs how much energy you can produce. The energy balance of producing an intensive agricultural crop like corn is negative. The reason it is being pushed so hard, especially by the Bush administration (and also in Canada) is that corn production is subsidized, and we produce excess corn. Yet corn takes a lot of fertilizer and a lot of energy to grow and process. It's a win/win situation for politician, they can appear to be pro-environmental, and keep farmers in business by throwing money a... Bayblab blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=811348 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:54:00 +0100 811348